Data / Mines / Alabama / Blue Creek Mine No. 1
Blue Creek Mine No. 1: 862 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Blue Creek Mine No. 1 is an active coal (bituminous) underground mine in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, operated by Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC with 188 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 0103448). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 862 citations and orders there with $673,128 in proposed penalties, and 30 accident reports were filed there, with 30 injury or illness cases, 1 of them fatal.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 0103448
- Status
- Active since September 4, 2024
- Main commodity
- Coal (bituminous)
- Mine type
- Underground
- County
- Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
- Nearest town
- Berry, Alabama
- Operator
- Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC
- Parent company
- Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC
- Employees
- 188
- MSHA field office
- Birmingham AL Field Office (B)
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 862
- Significant and substantial
- 219 (25.4%)
- Closure orders
- 5
- High negligence or reckless
- 37
- Proposed penalties
- $673,128
- Amount paid so far
- $202,753
- Inspections
- 142
- Inspector hours on site
- 4,590
- Citations per inspection
- 6.07 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 30
- Injury and illness cases
- 30
- Fatalities
- 1
- Latest MSHA record
- November 5, 2026
- Citations issued to contractors here
- 66 ($107,582 proposed)
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | $0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | $578 | 4 |
| 2024 | 94 | 15 | $25,872 | 7 |
| 2025 | 523 | 119 | $237,672 | 11 |
| 2026 | 243 | 83 | $409,006 | 6 |
Standards cited most at Blue Creek Mine No. 1
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 75.202 | Underground coal mines, safety | 162 |
| 30 CFR 75.220 | Underground coal mines, safety | 89 |
| 30 CFR 75.400 | Underground coal mines, safety | 87 |
| 30 CFR 75.380 | Underground coal mines, safety | 52 |
| 30 CFR 75.403 | Underground coal mines, safety | 44 |
| 30 CFR 75.333 | Underground coal mines, safety | 40 |
| 30 CFR 75.370 | Underground coal mines, safety | 38 |
| 30 CFR 75.503 | Underground coal mines, safety | 26 |
| 30 CFR 75.517 | Underground coal mines, safety | 24 |
| 30 CFR 75.1725 | Underground coal mines, safety | 23 |
| 30 CFR 75.360 | Underground coal mines, safety | 14 |
| 30 CFR 75.512 | Underground coal mines, safety | 13 |
| 30 CFR 75.1722 | Underground coal mines, safety | 13 |
| 30 CFR 75.1731 | Underground coal mines, safety | 12 |
| 30 CFR 75.342 | Underground coal mines, safety | 12 |
Injury and illness cases at Blue Creek Mine No. 1
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Fatality | 1 |
| Permanent disability | 1 |
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 18 |
| No lost time, or an occupational illness | 10 |
What the accident reports at Blue Creek Mine No. 1 describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Machinery | 7 |
| Slip or fall of person | 6 |
| Handling of materials | 5 |
| Handtools (nonpowered) | 3 |
| Powered haulage | 2 |
| Fall of roof or back | 2 |
| Falling/sliding/rolling materials | 1 |
| Electrical | 1 |
| Exploding vessels under pressure | 1 |
| Striking or bumping | 1 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Blue Creek Mine No. 1
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Rock or roof bolting machine | 3 |
| Load-haul-dump | 2 |
| Hand tools (not powered) | 2 |
| Continuous miner | 1 |
| Longwall subparts | 1 |
| Hand tools (powered) | 1 |
| Mucking machine | 1 |
| Rock drill | 1 |
| Longwall machine | 1 |
Other open mines in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No 4 Mine | Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 420 | 2,711 |
| Kellerman | Alaco LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 28 | 247 |
| Tuscaloosa Quarry/howton Pit | Bunn Brothers Materials Inc | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Crushed, broken stone | 14 | 23 |
| Swann's Crossing | Southland Resources, Inc. | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 6 | 15 |
| Eaton Resources Pit 1 | Eaton Resources LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 15 | 14 |
| Vance Quarry | Davis Materials, Inc. | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Crushed, broken limestone | 13 | 13 |
| Blue Creek Processing | Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 19 | 11 |
| Tuscaloosa Plant | Covia Solutions LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Construction sand and gravel | 11 | 9 |
| Camp Cherry Austin | Southland Resources, Inc. | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 30 | 7 |
| Searles Mine No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 | Southland Resources, Inc. | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 20 | 2 |
| Vance Quarry | Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Crushed, broken limestone | 16 | 2 |
| East Brookwood Mine | Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 1 |
| Shannon Mine | Shannon, LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 20 | 0 |
| Tuscaloosa Quarry | Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Crushed, broken limestone | 16 | 0 |
| Highway 59 Mine No. 1 | Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC | Tuscaloosa County, AL | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 0 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.